Prof. Marina Rustow of Johns Hopkins University is an expert on the Cario Geniza; her book – Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate – uses documents from both the Fatimid chancery and the Cairo Geniza to place Jewish sectarian communities of 10-11th century Egypt within their Fatimid contexts. In this spirit, Prof. Rustow will give a brief presentation on the kinds of documents she encounters in her research, and use them to frame some broad methodological questions for discussion.
EVENT: History Grad Student Workshop: Marina Rustow, Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
DATE: Tuesday, April 07 2015
TIME: 4:30 pm
VENUE: The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University – 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, 02138
EVENT: Fatimid Decrees from the Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem
DATE: Wednesday, April 8, 2015
TIME: 12:00 pm
VENUE: The History Department at Harvard University, Lower Level Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street
via http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/marinarustow/
http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/marina-rustow-talk-title-tba
http://johnshopkins.academia.edu/MarinaRustow
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